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Their plan suggests that the city then partner with stakeholders to advocate for parcels to be acquired by the Land Bank and establish pathways for community ownership of the land - mainly concentrated in poorer, Black, and Latino neighborhoods in North and West Philadelphia. The new campaign, backed by Brooks and Councilmembers Helen Gym and Jamie Gauthier, proposes that the city reacquire the properties from US Bank by paying the roughly $10 million in liens. The move unintentionally privatized the ownership of the abandoned, lien-encumbered lots, leaving them to be sold through sheriff’s sales and backroom deals.
The land is at-risk, advocates say, due to liens stemming from the 1997 attempt by the city to bundle 33,000 tax liens and sell them to US Bank, a private lienholder, in an effort to quickly raise funds for the cash-strapped school district. The campaign - dubbed “Restore Community Land” - has identified around 500 parcels being used as gardens and side yards at risk of sheriff’s sale, as well as 475 plots they say could be acquired for affordable housing. The two spoke at a press conference this week outside the Viola Street Community Garden to champion a campaign by City Councilmember Kendra Brooks to urge the city to buy back $10 million in liens from a private lender who in 1997 purchased liens on thousands of parcels in a deal that the city controller later deemed a “worst-case scenario” for the city. It creates environmental chaos, and it also creates hazardous conditions that we have to live with.” So this is what speculating can do in our communities. » READ MORE: A decades-old money-making scheme has trapped hundreds of poor Philly blocks in limbo Last year, Joyce Smith, vice president of the Centennial Parkside Community Development Corporation, said she watched as a developer purchased five lots on the block for speculation, which she said sit empty. The garden itself is safe from sheriff’s sale, but Smith and advocates worry the surrounding grassy plots of tax-delinquent land, tended to by neighbors, could be auctioned off or sit vacant - a fate they hope to prevent with a new initiative to urge the city to repurchase $10 million in liens on the properties community members have maintained. Now, at 86, she visits at least three times a week and sees the site as an example of how lots cared for by the surrounding community can flourish. Smith remembers hauling trash and rubble with her neighbors from the abandoned lot to create the Viola Street Garden a half century ago. The garden wasn’t always so loved - or a garden at all. “You don’t come over here and just snatch them up. Perched in the late spring sun between her hearty collard greens, budding broccoli, and just-flowering tomatoes, she dangled a plastic bag of fresh-picked vermillion strawberries. Peeking out between the rowhomes on Viola Street in East Parkside sits the verdant oasis Naomi Smith has called her therapy of 50 years.